None of the injuries are considered life threatening. Scientists are going to study the space rocks to gain insight into the origins of our solar system. And weve posted more video of that meteor online, cbssf. Com and that meteor hit russia with the force of 20 hiroshima bombs, but it was only 1 3 as big as the asteroid that then hurled by earth a little bit later. That asteroid came within 17,000 miles of the earth which is closer than it sounds. Satellites are in a higher orbit than that, but unlike the russian meteor, nasa did see this space rock coming. Nasas currently studying about 9,000 of these nearearth asteroids. About 1,800 of them are fairly large and those are of very particular interest to us. Now, overnight a bright flash was spotted streaking above the bay area sky. You might have seen it. And as the sky lit up, so did the phones in our newsroom. Emails and tweets came pouring into kpix5. Check that out. People concerned about a streak of light in the sky, and this you
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